08:48     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 01/02/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13578.26  (-143.43 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6552.47  (-  3.47 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1047.532 (+  2.097)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11384.40  (-  3.19 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     923.69  (-  9.01 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)                   CLOSED                     
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   1992.46  (- 27.10 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3092.825 (+ 17.240)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    72.416 (-  1.768)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   232.48  (+  1.15 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2094.65  (-  1.67 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4127.2   (+ 20.5  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    5981.54  (- 12.69 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        708.73  (+  6.82 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1189.41  (+  8.14 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9270.13  (+ 66.08 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1484.33  (+ 16.65 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1115.65  (+  7.45 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1523.66  (+  4.03 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            2068.70  (+  6.29 )